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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From and about Robert Alphonso Taft (son of Ohio's sixth President) the U. S. has heard much since he was elected to the Senate last year. From and about Ohio's 54th Governor, the U. S. has heard almost nothing at all.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ohio's Eighth? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Whatever Comrade Litvinoff's retirement meant, Britain and France thought it was bad news. It was accepted as good news in a Germany which had not failed to notice that, in his last two or three big speeches, Fiihrer Hitler had dropped his usual tirade against the Bolsheviks. Whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Although Comrade Litvinoff outwardly conformed to diplomatic precedent, his language at international powwows was at first considered distinctly bad form. Once, for instance, he threw diplomatic minnesingers off key by proposing-at a disarmament conference of all places-complete disarmament. At a fatuous session of the League of Nations he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

But there was nothing perfunctory about the launching of the Prince of Wales. It came less than three months after the launching of her sister ship, King George

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Splash Answer | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Over Portland, Ore. one day last week buzzed a trim two-motored airplane that outwardly looked like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flying Basket | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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